LOCAL HAPPENINGS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 13820, 30 March 1938, Page 4

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

“Memory is the friend of wit; but the treacherous ally of imitation." Mr. H. . White, headmaster at Alfredton, is leaving this week for the Ruakokore Native School, i n the Whakatane district. The annual meeting of the Ki*vi men’s hoc Key club will be held ii. the Oddfellows’ Hall, Pahiatua. to-night at 7 | -in. All players and intending players are invited to attend. An uniortunate accident befell Mr William Olsen, junior on Monday evening. While cycling along Newman Road his trolisers-cuff became entangled in the chain and with the resultant fall a broken arm was sustained. The annual meeting ol the Mangatain oka Football Club will bo. held on Thursday night at 7.30 p.m. in the Library Hall, Ma-ngataii.oka when a full attendance of players and intending players is requested. Full detaifs will be found in an advertisement on page one of this issue. As a token of respect and appreciation for what she had done during her association with St. Peter’s Church Guild, members of the latter recently presented Mrs. N. A. Prussing with an Indian beaten brass vase. The presentation was made by the president, Mrs. J. D. C. Crewe. Mr. A. N. Suter, of Rongokokako is a n inmate of the Pahiatua hospital, where he is progressing favourably after an operation. He was loading milk when the horse attached to vehicle moved on just as a can was between the stage and the brake. In attempting to save the can of milk Mr. Suter strained himself s everely •

Yesterday afternoon Charles Clifford Ivnopp, of Pongaroa, charged with being an idle and disorderly person, was sentenced to three months gaol by Messrs 17. H. Hartley and L. D. Lovelock. Constable Gainey, who prosecuted, intimated that Knopp was begging for food and in addition to being a nuisance, had scared the womenfolk i n the district.